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Towards Mixed Societies of Chickens and Robots

Gribovskiy, Alexey  
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Halloy, José Ignacio
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Deneubourg, Jean-Louis
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2010
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010)
The IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010)

To design, to study, and to control mixed animals-robots societies is a challenging field of scientific exploration that can bring new frameworks to study individual and collective behaviors in animal and mixed robot-animal societies. In the Chicken Robot project we aim at developing a mobile robot, able to collaborate with a group of chicks and to control certain group behaviors. The first research step is to build formal models of relevant animal behaviors by performing ethological experiments. Hence, one of the principal tasks is to design a setup equipped with appropriate monitoring tools. In this paper, we present a toolset for running chick-robot experiments and analyzing results. It includes an autonomous PoulBot robot and an experimental setup, able to autonomously record experimental video and audio data, to detect displacements of chicks and robots, to detect their calling activity and to provide robots with these data. We also present a visual data analysis system to extract behavioral features of individual chicks using the variational Bayesian Gaussian mixture model classification with a particle filters based prediction of future positions of chicks. We show how these tools are currently used to carry out chick-robot experiments, to collect behavioral data and to extract animal behavioral features that allow us to build behavioral models bound to be implemented in the robot.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/IROS.2010.5649542
Web of Science ID

WOS:000287672004088

Author(s)
Gribovskiy, Alexey  
Halloy, José Ignacio
Deneubourg, Jean-Louis
Bleuler, Hannes  
Mondada, Francesco  
Date Issued

2010

Publisher

IEEE Press

Published in
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010)
Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Start page

4722

End page

4728

Subjects

animal-robot interaction

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mobile robotics

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visual tracking

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[MOBOTS]

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poulbot

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
The IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010)

Taipei, Taiwan

October 18-22, 2010

Available on Infoscience
November 15, 2010
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